Man is a being of three parts,
Verse 1
Man is a being of three parts, The body, soul, and spirit too, Th' eternal purpose to fulfill With God's inheritance in view.
Verse 2
The body is the outward part That man a world-sense may possess; Thus he may touch the outward things And bodily himself express.
Verse 3
The soul within-the inward part- Is but the very self of man; The sense of self it gives to him To touch the psychic world of man.
Verse 4
The spirit is the inmost part With which the Lord he may receive; The sense of God it gives to man That he the spirit-world perceive.
Verse 5
Within the soul of man there are The mind, emotion, and the will; These are the functions for the man His human nature to fulfill.
Verse 6
Within the spirit of the man, Are found the conscience, fellowship, And intuition, which thereby The man to worship God equip.
Verse 7
The man must exercise his soul To choose that God he may possess, And by his spirit God partake, And thru his body God express.
Verse 8
Man's spirit had to be reborn With life divine to him conveyed; His soul must be transformed by God, His body like Christ's body made.
Verse 9
' Tis by these steps of work divine In each of man's three separate parts That man is mingled with the Lord And His expression full imparts.
